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Thomas Sowell Quotes - Page 5

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People who have never run even a modest little business assert with great certainty and indignation that heads of multinational corporations are paid much more than they are worth. People who know nothing about medicine

People who have never run even a modest little business assert with great certainty and indignation that heads of multinational corporations are paid much more than they are worth. People who know nothing about medicine and nothing about economics unhesi.

Running, Medicine, People

Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen — written in blood — from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji to the Philippines. It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.

Blood, Years, Iraq

Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.397, ReadHowYouWant.com

The way to get people's votes is to say that all their problems are caused by other people, and that you will stop those other people from giving them trouble. But if you really want to help, then you can tell them the truth and risk losing their votes.

People, Giving, Risk

In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.

Media, Political, Truth Is

You do not need proof for what people want to believe.

Believe, People, Needs

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

Art, Selfish, Patriotic

Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.

Yesterday, Today, Problem

The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.

Leader, Political, Who Cares

Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.

Credit, May, Facts

"Bankrupt ‘Exploiters’" by Thomas Sowell, www.nationalreview.com. July 22, 2008.

Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence. The implications of having so many people so incapable of confronting opposing arguments with anything besides ad hominem responses reach far.

Educational, School, Skills

"Cheap-Shot Journalism" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 14, 2006.

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.

Government, Law, People

Nobody would put as little thought and effort into buying an automobile as they put into deciding who to elect as President of the United States.

Effort, President, United States

Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.313, Hoover Press

We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.

Freedom, Law, Black

It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.

Thinking, People, Favors

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Government, Want, Politician

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Inspirational, Liberty, Libertarian

Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.79, Basic Books

Most of the people in the upper income brackets are not rich and do not have wealth sheltered offshore. They are typically working people who have finally reached their peak earning years after many years of far more modest incomes-and now see much of what they have worked for siphoned off by politicians, to the accompaniment of lofty rhetoric.

Years, People, Earning

You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely to be produced when people see that it is going to be confiscated.

Philosophy, People, Political

People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.

People, Want, Way

"Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays". Book by Thomas Sowell, 1999.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Past, Gdp, Liberty

Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

Different, Way, Helping

What makes it possible for politicians to do so many things that are economically counterproductive is that neither the public nor the media know enough of the basics to understand what's wrong with what they're saying.

Media, Politician, Enough

Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

Believe, People, Political

"Random Thoughts". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. February 01, 2002.

The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.

Fate, People, Tragedy

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

Identity, Remember, Trouble

"Random thoughts" by Thomas Sowell, townhall.com. May 1, 2007.

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